Reading a Christmas romance in July, when outside the sunny shines is strange, but well, maybe you can find refreshment... even if an hot D/s erotic romance is not the likely place where to find coldness.

Joke apart, this is the sequel of Collared Hearts. Anthony is an Italian-Irish painter and various artist who is leaving since ten months (from Valentine's Day) with his lover and agent Josh. Before their cohabitation, Josh and Anthony were lovers, but the relationship was more of the type rich daddy and kept man, with Josh in the role of the snobby wasp who found themself a pretty lover, who happened to be also a good artist which works he sold in his gallery. Always feared to be passed as sissy by his brothers and friends since he was small and pretty, Josh behaved in a cold way with Anthony, who felt like a sexual toy rather than an equal partner.

Now they have reached an agreement, they switch role, using the help of a collar to decide who is the pet: who is wearing the collar has to behave as a good pet, and the collar is also a tool which allows who is wearing it to be free from the duties and the demands of everyday life; who is wearing the collar has to obey only to one Master, and not to the obligation of common society.

A funny and relaxing D/s short story, less than 50 pages, not too angst and compelling, with a sweet and romantic side.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Frosted+Hearts/exact_match=exact 

Series:
1) Collared Hearts: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/100747.html
2) Frosted Hearts

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Doug and Simon work together in the same office but they are not "friendly" to each other; every chance they have to argue, they take, and sometime they also create the chance if it's not there. Their colleague are tired to see them bite and growl and so they think to stuck them in a janitor closet for an indefinite amount of time: if they don't kill each other, maybe they will find an agreement. But the agreement they find is not of working type; they realize that the sparks between them have a sexual nature and decide to go with them.

A short story of less then 40 pages, smooth and enjoyable. The classical office affairs plot, where two handsome men have mutual attraction but seem to never find the way to reveal it openly until mutual "friends" give them an hand. Maybe the friends didn't expected that the outcome of their actions would be an intense sex session in the closet.

To read during lunch break, preferably at work to guess what will happen if you manage to be stuck in the closet with that handsome guy in the near office...

http://redrosepublishing.com/bookstore/product_info.php?products_id=191

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Like we didn't already know that?!

You are all watching Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog, aren't you?  Free online for a week, I think, (thank god for broadband) then out on DVD. Hilarious, moving and with some great tunes!  Think "Once more with feeling" and then add classic supervillian/superhero into the mix.

Bwahahahaa!

Like their stuff *thumb up*

http://santani.deviantart.com/gallery/

Hacía mucho tiempo que no lloraba tanto T_T
Esta serie es de lo mejor. La trama es muy divertida, pero el final te rompe el corazón.
Está basado en un manga, el cual no hubiera leído nunca; sin embargo, me alegro de haber visto la serie de lo contrario me hubiera perdido una excelente y conmovedora historia. Definitivamente una de las mejores obras de esta mangaka.

indian pipe (monotropa uniflora). once upon a time they used to be called saprophytes, but now it's myco-heterotrophs. they're non-photosynthetic plants which get their food from fungi whose mycelium they parasitize.

walklog:

7-18 nanaimo river regional park, 2.9 km, 1:09. biggest patch of indian pipe i've ever seen, but it's so dark in that part of the forest that i didn't get a better picture (like in profile so one can see why it got its name) without a tripod.

Neologisms are alternate meanings for common words.

Arbitrator \ar'-bi-tray-ter\:
A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's.

Avoidable \uh-voy'-duh-buhl\:
What a bullfighter tries to do.

Baloney \buh-lo'-nee\:
Where some hemlines fall.

Bernadette \burn'-a-det\:
The act of torching a mortgage.

Burglarize \bur'-gler-ize\:
What a crook sees with.

Control \kon-trol'\:
A short, ugly inmate.

Counterfeiters \kown-ter-fit-ers \:
Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.

Eclipse \i-klips'\:
What an English barber does for a living.

Eyedropper \i'-drop-ur\:
A clumsy ophthalmologist.

Heroes \hee'-rhos\:
What a guy in a boat does.

Left Bank \left' bangk'\:
What the robber did when his bag was full of loot.

Misty \mis'-tee\:
How golfers create divots.

Paradox \par'-u-doks\:
Two physicians.

Parasites \par'-uh-sites\:
What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Pharmacist \farm'-uh-sist\:
A helper on the farm.

Polarize \po'-lur-ize\:
What penguins see with.

Primate \pri'-mat\:
Removing your spouse from in front of the TV.

Relief \ree-leef'\:
What trees do in the spring.

Rubberneck \rub'-er-nek\:
What you do to relax your wife.

Seamstress \seem'-stres\:
Describes 250 pounds in a size six.

Selfish \sel'-fish\:
What the owner of a seafood store does.

Subdued \sub-dood'\:
Like, a guy, like, works on one of those, like, submarines, man.

Sudafed \sood'-a-fed\:
Bringing litigation against a government official.


( Antique Bakery [02], Code Blue [01], Dae Jang Geum [01], Junjo Romantica [DVD Special], Monochrome Factor [09], Shigeshoshi [01], S.A ~Special A~ [13-14], WALL-E )

( New Anime: Amuri in Star Ocean, Birdy The Mighty Decode, Blade of the Immortal, Hidamari Sketch x365, Koihime Muso, Maho Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto ~ Natsu no Sora ~, Natsume Yujincho, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Slayers Revolution, Strike Witches TV, Telepathy Shojo Ran, World Destruction ~Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin~, Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo, Zero no Tsukaima: Princesses no Rondo )

( ♥B~Day Wishes♥ )

A judge has ordered a 19-year-old man to write an apology to his hometown in New York for dressing as a 6-foot penis at a high school graduation.

The judge also ordered Calvin Morett to pay to have the apology published in a local newspaper, pay court fees and perform 24 hours of community service. He has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.

Morett donned the giant penis costume and ran onto the stage in the middle of the Saratoga Performing Arts Centre's graduation ceremony, the same school where he graduated from last year.

He then sprayed some of the 5,000 people in the crowd with Silly String. His strange stunt has attracted global notoriety but caused outrage in his hometown.

hmmhmmhmmmm, this is tough *bad memory*. Well if we want to get technical..I don't suppose Sesame Street sing alongs count xD nor Strawberry Shortcake. NOR CRICKET THE MAGICAL STORYTELLING ROBOT DOLL <3. So I'll go with the first album I bought myself, and sad to say it was some sort of animu soundtrack... possibly the X movie ST. Or it was the NA Sailor Moon soundtrack x'D ohlord. Pushing aside all things cartoon or kiddy, my first was the X-Japan Dahlia album. And yes I'll revisit it from time to time.

I wanted it to be Chris De Burgh's Spanish Train album, though. By the time I had the money saved up someone had already bought it. Maybe that was the turning point of my life.

Kris has a middle age crisis (middle age since Dante said that the middle path of life is 35 years old... and Kris is 37 years old so...). He was a famous fashion photographer, but he quitted, disgusted by the all too glittering world without real "feelings". But he is in debt with a friend and so he agrees to do a late assignment for a jewelry advertisement: all "red" photos, shiny red details which will be associated to ruby jewelry. On the site, Kris makes his good without feelings work, till he sees a young man among the crew: he is not model type, too rough and simple, but he is exactly Kris' type. And so during the last hour he takes some pics also of the man in shiny vynil red pants. Weeks later he is stunned when the firm decides to use the photos of the man as main theme for the ad campaign: it's almost like they steals his soul, the secrets he shared with a man he has never seen again and that haunts his dreams. It's time for Kris to give up and starts fresh somewhere else...

The story is very short, less than 30 pages, and more than a romance is the selfdiscovery journey of a man who realized that what it's on the top of the world is not what he wants and he needs to find a way to climb down. More than a mere photographer, Kris is an artist and like all the artists he is almost jealous of his art and doesn't like to see it commercialized. Plus he feels something for the model, Lane, a man he couldn't have, and maybe see him splattered on every glossy page, is almost like if all the others can have him rather than he.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/zencart

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle 

From Maou's mail, his tension seemed pretty high ne? lol I was very curious to know what he's so excited about.... so i went to scour Japanese blogs... no life.. i know.. i mean seriously....

I found that

1. RIIDAA DROVE A CAR.........!!!!! lol They (J-bloggers) were all very amused by this it seemed.. I read quite a few and they all had pretty much the same impressions. One of them even reported as a valuable scene that must be watched... lol Because riidaa doesn't have a driving license..........!!!! hahahahaha How could i not remember that in Mawang, the lawyer had to drive the kid to somewhere...?!!?!! And now in the Japanese version, here we got Ohno Satoshi who doesn't own a car or even a driving license to drive a kid in his drama XD;;; lol
   
2. The love story has begun :P

And i saw the screencaps posted by someone in the arashi com. The direction of the story is going too fast. The scene in episode 3 of the Japanese version is actually somewhere around episode 6-8 in Mawang. Well it doesn't really matter anyway as long as it didn't lose any essence of the story, that's ok....

I can't wait to watch it!

Oh my god. Yoroshiku Master has a second volume. I HAD NO IDEA ~

=u= There's so much shoujo manga I need to buy this time around lolololol.

Oh right, and I watched the first ep of Yasuko to Kenji today. Cute drama, but as always I am reminded of why I stopped watching dramas. ;A; The acting and the camera work... it just irks me OTL

Newest Favorite Hush-Sound-Related Thing: Greta's photoblog of the current tour*, particularly things like:
→ Overheard conversations
→ new addition to our band! Matt Leblanc!
→ another new addition to our band: Chris Faller's Facial Hair!
→ This post, which makes me wonder why there isn't a story about Greta and Maja/Greta and Amanda Palmer (oh man, wouldn't the story about their long-distance multi-partner relationship be amazing? Shh, allow me my fantasies, okay) having sex in a bathroom. Okay, perhaps that's less a story and more a porno. But I'm sure you see where I'm going here.

Greta is such a badass. She gets characterized as sweet-natured and kind--when really she's just such a ridiculous badass. I think her whole band qualifies for Graduates of Ridiculous Badassery, though some with a distinct "Ridiculous" leaning and some more "Badass".

* There is a feed for it here.

I'm not going to go into my dream last night about going to see The Dark Knight's midnight showing, but just know that it was amazing. And not The Dark Knight.

Mangaka: Kaiya Tatsumi

Licensed: Yes by June

Volumes: 1 (Complete)

Language: English

Scanner: MB